Manager IT Cloud Engineering @ The Hartford
placeDanbury, Connecticut, United States
businessOn Site
scheduleFull Time
Posted 6 days ago
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Manager IT Cloud Engineering
At The Hartford, we are proud to be an insurance company determined to make a difference. Join our team to help shape the future by leading our Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) platform. This role combines hands-on engineering with team leadership and strategic oversight.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead engineering and delivery of cloud-native IDP solutions using AWS and third-party platforms.
- Manage a team of engineers and collaborate with data scientists, architects, and business stakeholders.
- Oversee development and optimization of automated workflows for document ingestion, classification, extraction, and validation.
- Drive performance tuning, cost optimization, and infrastructure resilience.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and fault-tolerant mechanisms to ensure platform reliability.
- Own technical documentation including architecture diagrams, deployment guides, and runbooks.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to the platform roadmap and strategic planning.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and accountability.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
- 7+ years in cloud engineering with 2+ years in leadership.
- Expertise in AWS (Lambda, S3, Step Functions, ECS, IAM).
- Strong programming in .NET and Python for scalable backend services.
- Experience with OCR, NLP, machine learning, containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex systems and implement resilient cloud architectures.
- AWS certifications and experience with GenAI-powered IDP platforms.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience with .NET 8, Power Automate, Tableau, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.
- Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship.
Work Arrangement & Compensation
This role follows a Hybrid work schedule with in-office presence 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday) at one of the following locations: Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Hartford, CT or Charlotte, NC. The annualized base pay range is $136,800 - $205,200, with additional rewards such as bonuses and long-term incentives.
Key skills/competency
- Cloud Engineering
- AWS
- Leadership
- IDP
- .NET
- Python
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Terraform
- OCR
How to Get Hired at The Hartford
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Customize resume: Tailor your resume to cloud and leadership skills.
- Highlight experience: Emphasize AWS, .NET and Python projects.
- Showcase leadership: Detail successful team management experiences.
- Prepare examples: Demonstrate handling complex cloud solutions.
📝 Interview Preparation Advice
Technical Preparation
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Review AWS service configurations.
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Practice .NET and Python coding challenges.
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Familiarize with container orchestration best practices.
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Study infrastructure-as-code tool usage.
Behavioral Questions
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Describe your team leadership approach.
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Explain a challenge in cloud scalability.
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Discuss decision-making under pressure.
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Share an example of conflict resolution.
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